Landscapes of Mind

Join Anne Grgich in exploring the art of painting Landscapes of Mind. Learn how to create deep portraits of soul composing landscapes and faces with collage and ephemera to create color fields and build form with color. Anne shows how she gets her deep jewel-like effects. Students will work on two portraits in tandem, and will experience hands on and individual time with teacher through out the day. Anne offers an amazing learning experience where she shares her own passionate process and infects you with it along the way. Slides will be shown of Annie's paintings, and demonstrations will be given throughout class. Create stunning abstract portraiture imagery with master collage and portrait painter. Grgich offers her unique outlook in painting, building elements with collage in an easy to understand process of mixing mediums, she gives away her methods of collage and painterly technique.

Per Day Fee (per student): on request
Kit/Materials/Travel/Lodging (teacher fee): on request
Min/Max # of Students: 4-10 1-2 days
Class Length: 6 hours per day (extra time if allowed)

Optional Items:

Gold Leaf, Colored Tapes, Paint Pens, Stickers, Photos, Fancy Papers, Golden Tar Gel, Beeswax, Golden Asphaltum colored and Golden Metallic colored Glaze. Non Toxic Color pigments. Pastel Crayons, most of these items will be available to use if you want to experiment. You will be collaging and painting and learning Annie's methods to take off and add to your own style and methods. I will bring plenty of extra superb collage pieces to fill in areas, so no worries. I will also bring a wax crock pot.

Notes: If you pre-select the collage for class and organize by color-patterned paper, flat items you've been saving, only bring the best, keep it simple, less than 5 collage pieces per surface to paint on.

The Plastic Art of Painting Carried into the Future

I find it difficult translating my work to words, so much involved in my work and where it comes from, all at once: bold and luminous, painterly, gritty, grotesque, hysterical, historic histrionic, neo-primitive Byzantine, cartooning, over potpouri montage, collage onslaught treated to various ends for color, (as a palette) as form, as reference, reverence and design-all treated with this over-calligraphy in my own religious vernacular- a feverish automatic painting vocabulary, (with infinite, mutating dialects). The answer in my many languages to: "what does one do as an artist?" For intuition, I'm absorbent as a sponge. Yet hell bent on new vision on creation-to find voice/of style of vocabulary of my own/while being simultaneously barraged and assailed by a world media machine that pumps imagery out as well as absorbs & incorporates all that is not purely original as it's own generic status-quo redeeming value system.

I'm wrestling the media barrage- "The Old Masters", Religious Icons of the dominant Paradigms- "flip them, pin them, put them in a meat grinder and creates anew: refining, Molding, sculpting into bas-relief through a vast personal lexicon intensely cross-referencing Itself via my hand into free dimensional form as texture, pattern, icon, story, creature, Cartoon, collage and ultimately an ultimate grotto-esque upon the virtual reality cave Of the pop icon factory.